The Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation in Yukon has entered into a partnership with an Alberta-based company to generate what’s described as a new type of green energy. Eavor Technologies Inc. has developed a geothermal system, dubbed the Eavor-Loop, that harnesses the Earth’s natural heat, kilometres underground. The heat underground is moved to the surface, where it can be…

A Japanese government panel on Friday roughly accepted a draft proposal for releasing into the sea massive amounts of radioactive water now being stored at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant. The economy and industry ministry’s draft proposal said releasing the water gradually into the sea was the safer, more feasible method, though evaporation was also…

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A national ban on many single-use plastics is on track for next year after a government report concluded Thursday that there is more than enough evidence proving plastic pollution is harmful, Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said. “We will be moving towards a ban on harmful single-use plastics and we will be doing that in 2021,” said…

Images from a powerful new telescope installed atop a volcano in Hawaii show the surface of the sun in the closest detail yet, revealing features as small as 30 kilometres across. They were captured by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, which sits at around 3,000 metres above sea level near the summit…

Two defunct satellites that looked as though they might collide Wednesday evening have missed each other. Private satellite-tracking company LeoLabs tweeted that it was “pleased to report” that following the projected close encounter between the two satellites, it saw no evidence of new debris. We are pleased to report that in the first several radar…